Why do so few doctors share medical records with their patients?

Posted By on May 5, 2016

New government-issued guidelines, released in January, spell out the details of patients’ rights to their medical records. This isn’t news: Healthcare providers have been required to provide patients with paper or electronic copies of the health information they had on file for twenty years now, since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed in 1996. So why the new legislature? It turns out that while...

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